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BANKRUPTS

... Nathaniel Bradford Pierpoint, Pulteney Street, Golden Square. Johu Fiddaman, currier, Newark-upon-Trent. Charles James Plant, licensed victualler, Goswell Street. Thomas Casson, coach-builder, Parr Street, Liverpool. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. John Pinnock Thirkell, farmer, Cranbrook, Kent. ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 33 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

SHERIFF COURTS BILL

... IFF COURTS BILL The Lord Advocate’s bill © to Facilitate Procedure in the | Sheriff Courts in Scotland” has been printed, “as amended | in committe and by the sclect committee, and on considera- tion as amended.” ‘The measure has now been read a third | time and passed in the House of Commons, but as the clauses | contained in it, with few exceptions, have already been laid before our readers ...

Published: Thursday 07 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2431 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE TURKS

... THE TURKS Mr Bayle St John has added to the other interesting books of which he is the author, one entitled The Turks in Europe: A Sketch of Manners and Polities in the Ottoman Empire,” from which we make the following extracts :— “We commonly conceive a Turk as a burly individual, sur- rounded by a great number of submissive beauties, anxious for the honour of the handkerchief ; but it is not ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1057 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE FINE ARTS IN SCOTLAND

... e annual meeting of this association was held on Satur- day afternoon, in the Music Hall, which was on the occasion filled by a numerous and brilliant assemblage of ladies and gentlemen. The prizes to be distributed among the subscribers, in- cluding Mr Faed’s beautiful drawings in illustration of “ The Cottar’s Saturday Night,” were displayed behind and in front of the platform. The Solicitor ...

Published: Monday 18 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4858 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Trade and Money Matters

... rade and EDINBURGH HARE LIST. WEDNESDA\, JULY 15, 1853. Divi When Pay able. Description of Stock. Share. Paid. Price. -—_ | Railways. £% 8 cent. lels 7 0 Stk, | 100 to Mayvé N w 9 31 10 51 & Forfar A ) ee a Do. Halves 12) 15 2 Quarters 6s 0 March Caledonian k. | 100 Si Do. & Sep Do. Preference Stk lee tau Ws 10 0 Sa eee De. Clydesdale J 0; 5 Caledon. & Dumbart 2 25 20 3 Jan. June Dundee & ...

Published: Thursday 14 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 662 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... Caledonian EDINBURGH, MONDAY, JULY 18, A SECOND EDITION of the MERCURY is published every Mon- day Afternoon, containing Reports of the London Com and Cattle Markets of that day, the state of the Funds and all other intelligence received by Telegraph. The Second Edition can be forwarded, in most instances, to any part of the Country by the Mails of that are - Whew something new intrudes itself ...

Published: Monday 18 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6055 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SCOTTISIL — TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. [beg to be indulged in makinga few the most singular views

... of the Times on this subject. Reduced to plain language, these seem to be—give Ireland her due, and a yreat deal more than her duc, because she makes a great outery,— ve a great deal less than her due ; in point of fact vive her tantamount to nothing, she has submitted so long and so pati tly. And because Irish ‘a, in their demands, are noisy and shameless, therefore we, the Times, in the ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 744 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

Imperial Parliament

... Parliament. HOUSE oF LORDS. ‘Tuvrspay, Juxn 30. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the Kelso Presbytery of the United Secession Church, in favour of the abolition of witnesses’ oaths. The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from Glas- gow, in favour of a complete reform in the Coun- ceil and Assembly of Jamaica. STATE OF The Dake of NEWCASTLE ealled attention io the nufor- tunate ...

Published: Monday 04 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4755 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THEATRE-ROYAL

... LHEATRE-ROYVAL Un Saturday night the house was again crewded, by an au- ‘dience which, throughout the whole ef the performances, was with laughter by Mr Teole and Mr Widdicombe— the former appearing as Grumley in “ Domestic Economy,” and the latter in the farce of the “ Two Poults.” We are also glad to announce, that throughout the week ‘the attendance was excellent, notwithstanding that this ...

Published: Monday 25 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 417 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... Steland. The Lord-Lieutenant has instructed the Crown prosecutor of Clare to proceed against Father Comyn, parish priest of Kilkee, for instigating the mob to violence, and for assault upon Mr Studdart, Justice of the Peace, during the late elec- tion in Clare Twe Great Exurertios, following para- graph appears im the Times of Monday, and fully corroborates all the accounts we have received of ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SCOTTISH GRIEVANCES

... (From the Tunes.) ument which has been given to | We have just received a doe the world under the title of a “ Statement of Certain Scottish | Grievances.” ‘This paper is to be taken as an abstract of all the causes of complaint which can be raked up on the other side of the ‘Tweed against the Imperial Government, and cer- tainly, in one sense, we have never reecived a satisfac- tory statement ...

Published: Monday 11 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1480 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ANGRY BILLY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. seed my letter in your paper, and 1 aint no ways

... If LT had him pleased with your man as put aR fora B. aboard Pd larn him the diffurenee in two minits. As Father used to say to me, * ‘Tom, there aint no larnin like practical larnin,” which was right, as Father mostways was. You see Md tell him a r stands for a rope, and a stands for a back, and as drawd the rope he'd draw the difference, and mind his letters in future. Billy’s name warn’t ...

Published: Monday 11 July 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2181 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News